FreeBSD 6 on Toshiba Tecra A4

[Ian Smith]

On Sun, 21 May 2006, Yousef Raffah wrote:

 > On Sun, 2006-05-21 at 21:58 +1000, Ian Smith wrote:
 > > On Sun, 21 May 2006, Yousef Raffah wrote:
 > > 
 > >  > On Wed, 2006-04-19 at 01:53 +1000, Norberto Meijome wrote:
 > >  > > On Sat, 15 Apr 2006 10:45:49 +0300
 > >  > > Yousef Raffah <yraffah at savola.com> wrote:
 > >  > > 
 > >  > > > ACPI not working (working on Linux)
 > >  > > 
 > >  > > doesn't work on my A2 either (does work, but the HD doens't realise it has gone
 > >  > > to sleep and resumed and panic ensues on resume). disable acpi and use apm,
 > >  > > works fine.

[..]

 > > On 5.x at least, /boot/device.hints contains
 > > 
 > >  hint.apm.0.disabled="1"
 > >  hint.apm.0.flags="0x20"

Is that still the case for your 6 system?

 > > So you'll likely need to add to /boot/loader.conf:
 > > 
 > >  hint.apm.0.disabled="0"
 > >  hint.apm.0.flags="0"     # assuming a non-broken statclock

Maybe try with the default .flags?  I may assume too much ..

 > > Then early in your dmesg.boot you should see such as
 > > 
 > >  apm0: <APM BIOS> on motherboard
 > >  apm0: found APM BIOS v1.2, connected at v1.2
 > > 
 > > and both /dev/apm and /dev/apmctl should appear.

 > Thanks for your reply Ian, but unfortunately, neither /dev/apm
 > nor /dev/apmctl appeared after adding the two lines:
 > hint.apm.0.disabled="0"
 > hint.apm.0.flags="0"
 > 
 > in /boot/loader.conf
 > It never appeared in dmesg as well :(.

Ok, just to check that your kernel thinks it has apm support, what
does 'kldstat -v' say about apm?

paqi# kldstat -v | grep apm | grep -v via
                184 legacy/apm
 4    1 0xc11a1000 2000     apm_saver.ko
                225 apm_saver

   (apm_saver irrelevant, though it does work well in vtys here)

and in the same vein (though also after successful APM loading):

paqi# sysctl -a | grep apm
debug.apm_debug: 0
machdep.apm_suspend_delay: 1
machdep.apm_standby_delay: 1
machdep.apm_swab_batt_minutes: 0
dev.apm.0.%desc: APM BIOS
dev.apm.0.%driver: apm
dev.apm.0.%parent: legacy0

 > I even added the following
 > > In rc.conf:
 > > 
 > >  apm_enable="YES"
 > >  apmd_enable="YES"
 > >  apmd_flags="-v"
 > > 
 > But no help :( Thanks for trying anyhow...

Well the rc.conf options won't help until booting detects APM BIOS.

Oh yes, can you / have you switched ACPI off &/or APM on in its BIOS? 

otherwise out of ideas, Ian